Charles de Marillac

Charles de Marillac (1510-2 December 1560) was a French prelate and diplomat.

Biography
Charles de Marillac was born in Riom, France in 1510, and he was, by the age of 22, an advocate in the Parlement of Paris. In 1535, he went to Eastern Europe after being accused of sympathizing with the Protestants, and he accompanied his cousin, the French diplomat Jean de La Foret, to Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire. In 1538, he returned to France, and he was almost immediately sent as ambassador to England, where he remained until 1543. From 1547 to 1551, he served as ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire, and his last two missions were to Rome in 1557 and at the Diet of Augsburg in 1559. In 1550, he became Bishop of Vannes, and he was then made Archbishop of Vienne in 1557. He died in Melun, France in 1560, having been pushed from power by the House of Guise.